Epiphany

So I was thinking about celebrating stuff on the lunar calendar--birthdays and all--and thought it would be ridiculous to have my birthday change dates throughout the year. Then I thought about this and realised--well, isn't the solar calendar pretty B.S. too? If you're a lunarite, those buggers on the solar system (no puns here) are the ones screwing around. Which doesn't mean that I have changed, making this a pretty worthless acknowledgment--though it is one many fail to make in other matters, such as the ones commonly known as 'war'.

It's weird, being in the library (study) with the soft illumination of a light bulb rather than the harsh...um, shit, what are they called?...glare I'm accustomed to. This way, the fade into the family room's darkness is a bit more natural...though the shadows and various light effects are obnoxious.

I'm waiting on that plug.

And epiphanies are no big deal....

Move & Rate (initially Movie Ratings, but Backspace sucks)

I saw "Robots" today--since no one reads this and I'm not getting paid, I'll just rate it: it's either worth the matinee IMAX rate ($8.00) or the Ogden 6 price ($3.00), because half the movie is graphics (and the other half is watching Robin Williams's character karaoke "Baby One More Time" while dressed like Xena).

Anyway, IMAX~~~! I'm a sucker for graphics.

I may eventually review The Salmon of Doubt...but I probably won't.

Happy Eostre Day...um, I mean, Easter.

"Ironically, the name 'Easter' was taken from the name of a Teutonic lunar Goddess, Eostre (from whence we also get the name of the female hormone, estrogen). Her chief symbols were the bunny (both for fertility and because her worshipers saw a hare in the full moon) and the egg (symbolic of the cosmic egg of creation), images which Christians have been hard-pressed to explain. Her holiday, the Eostara, was held on the Vernal Equinox Full Moon. Of course, the Church doesn't celebrate full moons, even if they do calculate by them, so they planted their Easter on the following Sunday. Thus, Easter is always the first Sunday, after the first Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox. If you've ever wondered why Easter moved all around the calendar, now you know. (By the way, the Catholic Church was so adamant about not incorporating Lunar Goddess symbolism that they added a further calculation: if Easter Sunday were to fall on the Full Moon itself, then Easter was postponed to the following Sunday instead.)"

Taken from the Internet Book of Shadows

Love is...Table

I feel like listening to Für Elise over and over again, though I really don't know why.

Who was Elise?

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At any rate, it all started at lunchtime when LC brought her little memo pad thingy from Graphics (which I recognized due to SE's own one during Creative Writing), and she got a little fixated on the notes.

Eventually, I discovered the 'Love is...' at the bottom, and we came up with some ideas like 'You', and then 'B.S.', etc. Deciding to be really ridiculous, I came up with 'Love is...Table'. At first, it didn't make sense...and then, enter Teen Sense, occasionally known as Dirty Sense.

Tables...

• can be used by large groups (though they're sometimes made for one)
• have a person at the head
• become sticky if you spill stuff on them
• have to be cleaned with vigorous rubbing with a rag back and forth...back and forth...
• are long, hard, and smooth
• are woody
• can have feet and such getting stuck in them
• have food sometimes dropping into the crack

Although I must credit Dude Whose Name I Don't Know (Mark?) for most of the good ones (particularly the back and forth).

I'll never look at a table the same way again. Until, of course, tomorrow.